Lindsey DubasArchitecture Portfolio

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Individual and Team: Alexandra Dorn, Lindsey Dubas, Desiree Edge, Rebecca Exley, Alyssa Johnson, Lisa Laue

Materiality Research: Design Studio: Fall 2008Triangulated Styrofoam Trimmed Paper

By articulating a template, organized cuts could be made into the styrofoam allowing for variations in shape and size of the material. In every module, there was either 2 or 3 cuts, evenly spaced and as they approached the frame, their size decreases. The next task was as a group; in a similar way the different templates decided the curves and densities of the material around the frame. The spaces created by the mesh change with every step and was hung in a ten foot tall “cage” for installation review.

Development of the system began with the circulation of the Emperor Penguin and the minimization of heat loss within the penguins feet. We began to design the exterior facade of Piazza Solferino, which was to be removed and reconstructed. The double layer “skin” system takes advantage of conduction between water and air; water collected from the environment passes through modules which are permeable to air. The contact between air and water is vital, as this is where the heat transfer occurs. The system functions differently in summer and winter to maximize efficiency. Water within the system is recycled into the interior, creating radiant floors and providing water for plumbing. The concepts of energy storage, transmission, and recovery can be seen through the different “modules” which alter lighting on the interior.

Team Project: Carlotta Francia di Celle, Lindsey Dubas, Sarah Goldfarb, Riccardo Rigo

Building Morphologies: Parametric Workshop: Fall 2010Torino, ItalySustainable Circulation: Piazza Solferino

After researching the history of Palazzo dei Congressi and the surrounding EUR, we found that the congress meeting house was to be moved to the Fuksas “Cloud,” leaving the building vacant. Rather, we developed a new program, a visual arts theater, in which projections and exhibits could be posted around the central “void space”, created by the vaulted extrusion. After simplifying the plans into a more usable projection gallery, the space was divided into a stepped contouring shape that provided the spaces for the actual exhibits. By walking around the central volume, one views protruded shapes into the open spaces, that could also be used for projecting or for other visual entities. The roof, which was originally a theater area, has been converted into a large movie projection screen.

Team Project: Christos Constantinou, Morgan Danner, Lindsey Dubas, Alyssa Johnson

Palazzo dei Congressi: Design Studio: Fall 2010Rome, ItalyPalazzo dei Congressi: Projecting into the Void

In creating a wall through slip-casting, we made our original mold thinking that we would be completely changing the mold itself, but we found that a majority of our work in creating deformations came from post-production of the slip. The most interesting parts were the dark spaces within the piece itself, and the void in between the pieces. In order to drastically exaggerate these spaces, the four-legged pieces could be turned, torqued, or made into one of three different “modules.” The wall consisted of 2” pieces, 4” pieces, and transitional pieces so all could fit together. These variations of pieces came from one mold, that contained a variable 5 pieces.

Team Project: Lindsey Dubas, Joseph Hines, Michael Kehoe

Carnal Clay: Vertical Studio: Spring 2011Accentuating the Void

In redefining the city as being a condenser, a subterranean residential compression, and an expander, the more public, social areas of the building, which both capitalize on embedding gradients into the site we begin using sun exposure and lighting conditions to determine the location and size of those programs. In this way, programs can become more localized while at the same time becoming more diverse to react to new global scales and regional-family scales of living. This proposal also takes advantage of the humidity, soil, as well as transpiration uses water collection flows for our programmatic needs. Looking at the site as more of an opposition between the earth and the sky, the underground neighborhood starts to capitalize on temperature gradients of the desert climatic zone, and the floating city capitalizes on the diurnal wind swings on the site.

Team Project: Lindsey Dubas, Kristin Koslowski, Tuan Nguyen, Kunmi Park

Dubai:Burj Khalifa: CASE Studio: Fall 2011Earth and Sky

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Team Project: Lindsey Dubas, Rebecca Exley, Caitlin Toczko

Kimball Art Center:Park City, Utah: Design Development Studio:Spring2012Curated Revolution

BIG Architects entered a competition for the redesign of the Kimball Art Center in Park City, Utah. With the design development course, we were asked to pick a project in competition phase, redesign if necessary, and to carry it through design development. The redesign of the building created a revolution that worked to attract locals and visitors to the site through the use of permanent educational facilities and interchangeable art exhibits and galleries. The design for the facade system worked with flitch-beams held in tension by rods that were suspended by the steel beams in the upper levels and created space for exhibiting artwork. Every other floor is used for curcularion and exhibition, while the floors between act as a space for education and the production of the arts.

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1'=1/8" FULL PERIMETER SUPPORTrotation of floorplate is derived through alternating structural connection

DUAL POINT SUPPORTsmaller floorplates are truncated parallel to core, but sustain two connections to exterior columns

MAIN GALLERY STAIR revolutory circulation path through the main curation spaces

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